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The IDEO Futures podcast: where entrepreneurship meets design.
We love the art and science of bringing cool stuff to life. We are designers dedicated to the notion of building to think. Our motto is always, "Don't get ready, get started!"
In that...Show More

Steve Vassallo is a General Partner at Foundation Capital and works at the intersection of business, technology, and design—all things close to our hearts. Steve joins Diego on episode 49 to talk about his new book, The Way to Design.
The book is a...Show More

Joe Gerber is BACK for a full episode of VDTBOM. Diego and Joe get nerdy pretty fast, but hang in there — mind blowing venture design awaits. They catch up on what's happening in the IDEO CoLab (www.ideocolab.com), learn about ICOs and tokens, and ch...Show More

If you don't already follow Michael Dearing on Twitter (twitter.com/mcgd), you'll want to after hearing this conversation with Diego (twitter.com/metacool). Michael is the founder of Harrison Metal and joins Diego to talk about venture mechanics, gro...Show More

As we approach the 101st running of the Indianapolis 500 this weekend, three of our favorite (and renowned) automotive design geeks join Diego to discuss the lost art of hand painted racing numbers. Graphic designers, car enthusiasts, and appreciator...Show More

Our guest on episode 45 is a truly remarkable individual. Bonny Simi, president of JetBlue Technology Ventures, joins Diego to discuss everything from corporate venture capital and making changes within a large organization, to how she ended up as a ...Show More

Bob Sutton is a Professor of Management Science and Engineering, and a Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford University. He's also quite a prolific author, and his books have a prominent place on our bookshelves. Bob and Diego cover everyt...Show More

Episode 43 is all about asking questions to learn your way to a better place. Ace IDEO business designers David Aycan and Katherine Londergan join Diego to talk about the importance of questions, whether you're just getting started or figuring out wh...Show More

"What will you do Monday that's different?"
Zach First, executive director of the Drucker Institute, joins Diego + guest host Susan O'Malley for a packed extended episode. Whether you're new to Peter Drucker or a versed student, this is a conversati...Show More

Nick Edwards is the founder and CEO of GradientOne, Inc. He also spent five years as a Submarine Officer on Los Angeles Class fast attack submarines. His insights around leadership are sharp and invaluable. He graduated with a BS in Control Systems E...Show More

Rob Pardo is on a mission to create game experiences that build and deepen friendships. Formerly the Chief Creative Officer at Blizzard Entertainment—where he led the design of World of Warcraft—Rob and a small team of game designers recently founded...Show More

Jane Chen is the co-founder and CEO of Embrace Innovations, a social enterprise startup creating technologically innovative products for a global community of mothers and babies. Embrace Innovations recently launched Little Lotus Baby, a new line of ...Show More

Brittany Ammerman founded the Nikumbuke Women's Soccer League in Kenya while she was a student and star hockey player at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Whether you are a soccer fan or not, her journey and her passion are an inspiration. She t...Show More

Kevin Kelly talks with Diego and Joe about his juicy new book, "The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future". From AI and VR, to the idea that Kevin's next book probably won't be a book, the conversation is wi...Show More

You're in for a treat this week: a full episode of Venture Design that Blows our Minds. VDTBOM XL. We talk Indy car racing, the DAO, simulations, electric cars in Spain, ridesharing in Austin, and much more. Plus, a few surprise guests to spice thing...Show More

Earlier this year, Diego hosted a fascinating conversation with drivers Patrick Dempsey and Patrick Long as part of the Open Garage Talk series at the Revs Program at Stanford.
Titled "Mindset of a Champion", the conversation focused on what it tak...Show More

Suzanne Gibbs Howard and Coe Leta Stafford join us to talk about the process of bringing IDEO U (ideou.com) to life. Both Suzanne and Coe are design researchers and have incredibly sharp insights about the entrepreneurial journey.
To build on the i...Show More

John Lilly is back on the pod, this time to talk about Blitzscaling (a course he co-taught last fall at Stanford with Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue and Chris Yeh), what's catching his eye these days, productivity tools, our transition from web to mobile, ...Show More

Kanyi Maqubela, partner at Collaborative Fund, joins us in episode 32 to talk about everything from the power of gratitude to intentionally experimenting in venture capital to Pharrell and everything in between.
And in honor of Twitter's 10-year an...Show More

Our guest on episode 31 is Dan Sinker, an internet legend whose creative exploits have inspired us over and over and over. Dan heads up the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews project, was the author of the legendary @MayorEmanuel twitter account, and was the fo...Show More

Can a smartphone improve your health? Bruce Hellman, founder and CEO of uMotif and Matt Cooper-Wright from IDEO London join Diego and Joe to talk about their experience with the IDEO Startup in Residence program. uMotif is a health-tracking app — a s...Show More

Our conversation with GV's Jake Knapp + John Zeratsky was packed with so much goodness that we bring you an extra special, slightly longer episode this week. Their book, "Sprint" (www.gv.com/sprint), gives teams a process for answering critical busin...Show More

Kris + Nat Woyzbun from MYTABLO on the value of print magazines, on being Rocky vs. the LA Lakers, on creative process, on staying focused in the chaos of running a startup, and much, much more.
And VDTBOM? We talk Hollywood and rumination. Plus, li...Show More

We have all kinds of guests to kick off the first episode of the new year! Gordon Jones talks with Diego about his new role as the Founding Dean of the College of Innovation and Design at Boise State University. Then, Colin Raney joins us for an epic...Show More

What happens when you take your own path and stay true to yourself? Good things happen. Managing director + co-founder of OATV and the creative mind behind Indie.vc, Bryce Roberts joins us for the last episode of 2015. Joe, Diego and Piper also take ...Show More

Musician, artist, feminist and Harvard Business School graduate Kiran Gandhi (a.k.a. Madame Gandhi) joins Joe to discuss everything from the future of music to how business design helps us frame difficult cultural conversations to her own creative pr...Show More

IDEO Designers Meija Jacobs and Shoshana Berger join us to talk about women and entrepreneurship. They hosted a lunch at TED Women this year and asked, "How might we create the conditions for confidence along the entrepreneurial journey?" As for VDTB...Show More

Patrick Adams, managing director at Secret Weapon Marketing, joins Diego to talk about the unique process behind their brilliant campaigns (notably Jack in the Box and the Happy Honda Dealer), the journey from accounting to advertising, Instagram, an...Show More

In episode 22, Joe and Diego tell us about a mind blowing morning at the Interval at Long Now, and then jump into an update from Girls Driving for a Difference. Diego chatted with Rachel and Natalya while they were (literally) on the road in North Ca...Show More

It was a true honor to have Andreas Antonopoulos speak to our design entrepreneurs as part of our Bits + Blocks Lab, and we took some time with him afterward to go even deeper into the world of Bitcoin and the blockchain. You got a teaser on episode ...Show More

A lot has happened since we last met during Episode No. 20! The Bits + Blocks Lab at Harvard had its finale at the end of July, IDEO U shipped its second course, and we've been working on a lot of soon-to-be-announced Futures things, too. Plus, durin...Show More

We have an action packed episode 20 (!!!!) for you this week, chock full of goodness. It’s officially summer, which means the Bits + Blocks Lab is in full swing at the Harvard Innovation Lab. We’ll introduce you to two of our student design entrepren...Show More

We have a lot of things on our minds, but as is ever the case, the Dude abides.
This week Piper (our Chief-of-Staff + Editorial Director + Marketing Lead) joined us for an edition of Venture Design that Blows Our Mind (VDTBOM) that might change the ...Show More

Hard to believe it's been three weeks since we released Episode 17. Joe and I were on a long patrol North of the Wall, but we're now back safe and sound in the good company of the interwebs, our microphones, and a whole bunch of Venture Design That B...Show More

We're back from Spring Break, feeling centered, serene, and mellow. Because what you create reflects what you feel, we hope you get a sense of that state of mind while listening to this podcast. As always, we're super grateful for the time you give u...Show More

In Episode 16 we focus on our IDEO Futures design theme of "Hacking Creativity and Design". Specifically, we took Episode 16 on a mission to explore the future of a broad spectrum of digital media: the media we listen to, the media we write on (blogs...Show More

This week, we’re excited to talk to Katie Kirsch and Jenna Leonardo, co-founders of Girls Driving for a Difference. Jenna, Katie and their teammates Rachel Chung and Natalya Thakur are embarking on a journey to empower middle-school girls through des...Show More

On Episode 14 of the IDEO Futures Podcast we are honored to welcome David Kelley as our guest. David is the founder of IDEO and also the visionary behind the creation of the groundbreaking d.school at Stanford, the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design....Show More

Here's a special edition of the IDEO Futures Podcast, our full-length interview with Chain.com founder Adam Ludwin.
A few days after we taped this interview, Adam and Chain.com were mentioned in this article from the New York Times, Data Security i...Show More

Episode 13. Is this our unlucky episode? Are you superstitious? Should we have just skipped to old 1-3 and gone directly to trusty Mr. 14?
Certainly not! We're very proud of 13 and what it represents. So proud, in fact, that we're also releasing 13....Show More

Pull your ears out and get 'em ready for 35 minutes of mind-blowing discussion of design, innovation, and making it happen.
In all seriousness, we think is our best pod yet—definitely in our Top 20.
At the center of Episode 12, Joe has a fantasti...Show More

Continuing the conversation we began last week, in Episode XI (aka "11") we dive into our Tools for Trust design theme.
For this edition of the IDEO Futures podcast, Joe spent some time talking with Dr. Reid Williams about Bitcoin, Blockchain, and t...Show More

In Episode 10, we look ahead to some design themes we'll be exploring at IDEO Futures in 2015. We'd like to invite you to a conversation about four design themes we consider important and inspiring.
We believe that these four design themes are, i...Show More

In this episode of the pod, Joe and Diego return to the theme of Discovery Driven Planning (DDP) and the Taco Truck. For a refresher on DDP, please give a listen to Episode 3.
Along the way, there's a veritable six-pack of venture design-related top...Show More

It's our lucky pod! Number seven is here! This one has a heavy and roll + pop star theme running through it, as well as an Oprah Winfrey reference which will surprise and delight. We guarantee!
We crank up this week's venture design fiesta with an u...Show More

This week the King Ship pod journeys to Boston for an innovation frenzy!
First, Diego was at Harvard Business School for the unveiling of the new IDEO Case.
Next stop was the MIT Media Lab, which was holding its annual Fall member meeting. The ...Show More

This week's pod is one of our best yet, and certainly ranks in our Top 10 ever!
Think of this pod as a sandwich: the middle part of it with all the yummy goodies is our interview with Iain Roberts regarding IDEO's global Startup in Residence Program...Show More

Welcome to Episode 4 of the IDEO Futures podscast!
This week Joe and Diego welcome their first guest, Cory Kidd, to talk about the future of Health Tech.
First, Diego ponders the return of the Good Wife and reads some viewer mail. Joe and Diego c...Show More

In Episode 3 we discuss a foundational technique for making innovation happen... DDP!
Otherwise known as Discovery Driven Planning, or its more recent incarnation, Discovery Driven Growth, DDP is one of the tools we use to design businesses. We star...Show More

In Episode 2, we discuss IDEO's Startup in Residence Program and a startup named Mural.ly, which recently went through the program.
Venture Design That Blew Our Mind: we discuss "Six Ways to Design a Business" by Kerry O'Connor, why you might want t...Show More

Here we go... Episode 1! Let's go jump off the roof together.
First, we talk about the recent Intrapreneur Lab, a collaboration between Fidelity Investments, the Harvard i-Lab, and IDEO. Hear about how we put it together, what happened over the sum...Show More